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"When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman."
- Joseph Addison
Source: Instant Quotation Dictionary_, p. 129.
Topics/Tags: Women; Marriage; Familiarity
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familar with its object."
- Joseph Addison
Source: Joseph Addison
Topics/Tags: Admiration; Familiarity; Appearance
George Bernard Shaw was visiting with a reporter, and his wife was there. As they talked back and forth, and Shaw regaled the reporter with one story after another, the reporter noticed that Shaw's wife was busily knitting the whole time.
Finally he turned to her and said, "You seem very absorbed in your knitting. Is that a great hobby of yours?"
"Not really," she said. "You see, I've heard these old stories of Bernard's so many times that, if I don't do something with my hands, I'll strangle him for telling them again!!"
Topics/Tags: Marriage; Familiarity; Stories
"People prefer to stay with problems they understand, rather than look for solutions they're uncomfortable with."
-- unknown
Source: "Bits & Pieces," July 1999
Topics/Tags: Problems; Familiarity; Contentment; Solutions
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